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PERFECTLY CONTAINED The OXO GOOD GRIPS Container Garden Set has everything you need to make your container garden grow. Specifically designed for planters and window boxes, the set includes a Trowel, Transplanter, Cultivator, Scoop, Floral Snips and a Caddy, all with soft, comfortable, non-slip grips. The perfect gift for your favorite green thumb. 6-Piece Container Garden Set 1.800.545.4411 www.oxo.com contents Volume 86, Number 6 . November / December 2007 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 5 NOTES FROM RIVER FARM 6 MEMBERS’ FORUM 7 NEWS FROM AHS AHS supports Boston garden contest, members enjoy Armitage webinar on bulbs, AHS Gala a success, Yew Dell Gardens hosts AHS Garden School, AHS is conducting children’s garden survey, AHS hosts spring trip to Asheville, North Carolina. 12 AHS NEWS SPECIAL America In Bloom 2007 Award Winners. Plus: An AIB judge recounts her personal experience judging communities. pagepage 1414 40 ONE ON ONE WITH… Dave Whitinger, creator of Dave’s Garden website. BIRD-FRIENDLY WINTER GARDENS BY KRIS WETHERBEE 14 ® Create a habitat to help birds survive winter in your garden. 42 GREEN GARAGE Cool tools and practical products. 19 VIRTUAL GARDENING IN THE BLOGOSPHERE BY DOUG GREEN 44 GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK Get connected to an online worldwide gardening community. Christmas tree growers form environmental coalition, Rozanne hardy geranium named 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year, students 22 WINTER-BLOOMING SHRUBS BY PETER LOEWER use technology to give plants voices, awards Perk up your winter landscape with these colorful shrubs. for Cora™ Madagascar periwinkle, virus linked to honeybee disorder, more fuel for debate about echinacea’s cold-fighting 28 THE FRAGRANT INDOORS efficacy, botanic garden executive Judy Zuk BY TOVAH MARTIN dies, plantsman Dan Hinkley becomes Sweetly scented flowers and Monrovia advisor. aromatic foliage make delight- ful additions to the indoor 48 APPRECIATION garden. Lady Bird Johnson: Her vision reflected in America’s roadsides 34 HAWAII’S HIDDEN JEWEL 50 GIFTS FOR GARDENERS BY MARGARET A. HAAPOJA BOOK REVIEWS The island of Kauai is home to 54 Na ‘Aina Kai, a little-known 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die, Conifers for the Garden, and Sunset Western public garden dedicated to art, Garden Book. conservation, and horticulture. Special focus: Books for young readers. pagepage 3434 56 REGIONAL HAPPENINGS 60 2007 MAGAZINE INDEX ON THE COVER: In late winter or early spring, chains of pale yellow flowers dangle from Stachyurus 62 HARDINESS AND HEAT ZONES TOP: JEAN KUNS / COURTESY OF GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT; BOTTOM: MARGARET A. HAAPOJA praecox, a deciduous shrub native to Asia. Photograph by Saxon Holt AND PRONUNCIATIONS November / December 2007 3 AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 7931 East Boulevard Drive Alexandria, VA 22308-1300 (800) 777-7931 fax (703) 768-8700 www.ahs.org Making America a Nation of Gardeners, a Land of Gardens American Horticultural Society President’s Council PRESIDENT Deane H. Hundley CHAMPION'S CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. John H. Ariail, Jr. ■ Ms. Judy Daniel ■ Mr. Board of Directors Franklin Y. Hundley ■ Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kulp, Jr. ■ Ms. Melissa Marshall ■ MTR Landscape Architects, LLC ■ Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Rissetto, Esq. ■ Mr. CHAIRMAN Susie Usrey Dayton, Oregon Arnold Steiner ■ Mr. and Mrs. W. Bruce Usrey ■ Ms. Frances Velay ■ Mrs. FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN Don E. Riddle, Jr. Davidsonville, Maryland Pauline E. Vollmer SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN Leslie Ariail Alexandria, Virginia SECRETARY Albin MacDonough Plant Baltimore, Maryland CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE Mrs. Katherine Belk TREASURER Arnold Steiner Birmingham, Alabama IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Arabella S. Dane Center Harbor, New Hampshire LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. Carter Bales ■ Mr. Richard C. and Mrs. Katherine Stark Bull ■ Mrs. Susan M. Cargill ■ Mrs. Elisabeth C. Dudley ■ Mrs. Marion Greene ■ Mr. and Mrs. James T. Norman ■ Mr. and Mrs. J. Allan M. Armitage Athens, Georgia ■ Suzanne Bales Oyster Bay, New York ■ William E. Barrick, Ph.D. Landon Reeve IV ■ Ms. Katy Moss Warner ■ Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Zech Theodore, Alabama ■ Katherine Belk Charlotte, North Carolina ■ Kurt Bluemel Baldwin, Maryland ■ Katherine Stark Bull Washington, D.C. ■ John Alex Floyd, Jr. Trussville, Alabama ■ Carole Hofley Wilson, Wyoming HAUPT CIRCLE Nancy J. Becker, M.D. ■ Mr. and Mrs. C. William Black ■ Mr. Margaret Kulp Louisville, Kentucky ■ Caroline Lewis Coral Gables, Florida ■ Melissa R. Marshall Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Kurt Bluemel ■ Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Dane ■ Mr. and Mrs. James Pennsylvania ■ Carol C. Morrison Palatine, Illinois ■ Shirley Nicolai Fort Washington, Maryland F. Delano ■ Mr. Gerald T. Halpin ■ Mrs. Richard W. Hamming ■ Mr. and J. Landon Reeve IV Woodbine, Maryland ■ Harry A. Rissetto, Esq. Falls Church, Virginia Mrs. Richard W. Hanselman ■ Mrs. Carole S. Hofley ■ Ms. Joann Luecke ■ Michel Sallin Groveland, Florida ■ Jeanne Shields Greenville, Delaware ■ Steven Still Hilliard, Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Matheson, Jr. ■ Dr. and Mrs. David E. Morrison ■ Mr. ■ Howard McK. Tucker Alexandria, Virginia ■ Robert D. Volk San Marino, California and Mrs. Ken Mountcastle ■ Jeanne Shields ■ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Daryl Williams Lake Buena Vista, Florida Smith, Jr. ■ Dr. and Mrs. George E. Staehle PRESIDENT EMERITUS Katy Moss Warner COUNCIL MEMBER’S CIRCLE Ms. Marietta E. Bernot ■ Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bigos ■ Mrs. George P. Bissell, Jr. ■ Dr. Sherran Blair ■ Mr. and Mrs. Robert 2007 Advisory Council L. Bogle ■ Count and Countess Peder Bonde ■ Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Beverly Hanselman, Nashville, Tennessee – Chair Bradshaw ■ Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust ■ Mr. and Mrs. William L. Carr, III ■ Anne S. Chatham ■ Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Demisay ■ Mr. and Mrs. Clarissa Bonde, Washington, D.C . G. Ray Miller, Brandon, Florida Robert Duemling ■ Mrs. Walter Fletcher ■ Dr. and Mrs. John A. Floyd, Jr. ■ Walter Bull, Columbia, South Carolina Egon Molbak, Bellevue, Washington Ms. Marguerite Peet Foster ■ Mr. and Mrs. Joel Goldsmith ■ Dr. and Mrs. Anne Bucher, Silver Spring, Maryland Dean Norton, Mt. Vernon, Virginia William O. Hargrove ■ Mr. Brian Holley ■ Mrs. Elizabeth Hooff ■ Mr. Philip Elaine Burden, Middleburg, Virginia Nancy Keen Palmer, Nashville, Tennessee Huey ■ Mr. Deane H. Hundley ■ Ms. Mary A. Lambert ■ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patty Bush, St. Louis, Missouri Bob Patterson, Washington, D.C. B. Lindsay ■ Mrs. Dorothy Marston ■ Mrs. Barbara McClendon ■ Ms. Lillian Skipp Calvert, Alexandria, Virginia Dr. Julia W. Rappaport, Santa Ana, California McKay ■ Mrs. Paul Mellon ■ Mrs. Rosalyn Milbrandt ■ Mr. and Mrs. Egon Philip Catron, Frederick, Maryland William Sadler, St. Louis, Missouri Molbak ■ Mrs. Kathryn A. Moss ■ Mrs. Shirley Ann Nicolai ■ Mr. and Mrs. Dr. H. Marc Cathey, Davidson, North Carolina Deen Day Sanders, Norcross, Georgia Albin MacDonough Plant ■ Dr. Julia Rappaport ■ Mr. and Mrs. James A. Russell Clark, Boston, Massachusetts Josephine Shanks, Houston, Texas Runde ■ Mrs. Deen Day Sanders ■ Mrs. Josephine Shanks ■ Mr. and Mrs. Bartie Cole, Owings Mills, Maryland Barbara Shea, Owings Mills, Maryland Emanuel Shemin ■ Mrs. P.M. Spreuer ■ Mrs. Juliet Sproul ■ Mr. Harold Jim Corfield, Geneva, Illinois Holly Shimizu, Glen Echo, Maryland Stahly ■ Mr. and Mrs. John B. Strasenburgh ■ Mr. Howard McK. Tucker and Edward N. Dane, Center Harbor, New Hampshire Charles Henry Smith, Jr, Middleburg, Virginia Ms. Megan Evans ■ Mr. Joe Viar ■ Ms. Angela M. Vikesland ■ Mr. and Mrs. David and Kitty Ferguson, Westwood, Massachusetts Tom Szaky, Trenton, New Jersey Robert D. Volk ■ Mrs. Agnes Binder Weisiger ■ Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Ben Griswold, Glyndon, Maryland Nancy Thomas, Houston, Texas White ■ Mr. and Mrs. John W. White, Sr. Carolyn Marsh Lindsay, Ponte Vedra, Florida Bryan Thomlison, Haddonfield, New Jersey Mickey Lynch, Dunmore, Pennsylvania Jeff Trunzo, Port Orange, Florida HONORARY PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Mrs. Enid A. Haupt ■ Mrs. John A. Lutz ■ Bob Malesardi, Easton, Maryland Pauline Vollmer, Baltimore, Maryland Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Miller Robert and Joanna Martin, Menlo Park, California Joyce and Harvey White, Nashville, Tennessee Mrs. Malcolm Matheson, Mt. Vernon, Virginia Joannah Williams, Sebring, Florida Barbara McClendon, Alexandria, Virginia Sheryl Wood, Middleburg, Virginia Education Sponsor OXO International Corporate Partners Bradfield Organics ■ The Care of Trees ■ Chapel Valley Landscape Company EarthBox™ ■ Homestead Gardens ■ Monrovia ■ NaturaLawn of America Osmocote ■ TerraCycle, Inc. ■ Your OutDoors, Inc./Perfect Garden Tool System Horticultural Partners America in Bloom ■ Bellingrath Gardens and Home ■ Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Garden Symposium ■ Cox Arboretum & Gardens Metropark ■ Epcot International Flower & Garden The 2007 password to access the Festival ■ The Gardeners of America/Men’s Garden Clubs of America ■ The Homestead in the Garden Symposium ■ Inniswood Garden Society ■ Leonard Haertter Travel Company members-only portion of the AHS Magic of Landscapes ■ Morris Arboretum ■ Oklahoma Botanical Garden & Arboretum website, www.ahs.org, is dogwood. Oklahoma Horticultural Society 4 the American Gardener The American NOTESC FROM RIVER FARM GARDENER EDITOR David J. Ellis MANAGING EDITOR AND ART DIRECTOR Mary Yee ASSISTANT EDITOR OOKING OUT OF my window on the second floor at our River Farm Viveka Neveln headquarters here in Alexandria, I am consistently amazed by the beauty EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Caroline Bentley L and resiliency of our planet. Despite the drought we have experienced— CONTRIBUTING EDITOR along with warmer than normal fall